Word: reforms
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...plans. "McCain will say Bush's plan favors the wealthy, and Bush will accuse McCain of not being a real Republican, in light of his so-called 'Democratic' tax platform," says Dickerson. And while it's unclear whether anyone will have the chutzpah to attack McCain's campaign finance reform stance, the Arizona senator may be weakened by Wednesday's reports that he pressured the FCC to vote on an issue close to the heart of a major McCain campaign contributor. "Anyone who brings it up needs to be very careful," says Dickerson. "Attacking McCain on campaign finance...
...themselves ruled by a man who has never given a press conference and whose official biography is only eight lines long. Even those who have probed the background of acting President Vladimir Putin have turned up little about his days in the KGB, his attitude to political and economic reform in Russia and his relationship with the country?s shadowy financial oligarchy...
...Putin?s years in the KGB, followed by his association with some of the key reformers in the post-communist period raise more questions than they answer. "Although some now say Putin was involved in economic espionage in Western Europe, others say he was a low level political commissar type keeping an eye on the loyalty of Soviet staff," says Meier. "Then there?s a big question mark over his mission in St. Petersburg - whether he, as he claims, had turned into a liberal democrat determined to push the reform program, or had been sent there to keep...
...honed p.r. campaign by aides, directed at journalists and visiting Western officials, has created the impression of a cool, crisp and ambitious young leader. Skeptical observers saluted his behind-the-throne power with the nickname "Ras-Putin." He has put the word out that he will be an economic reformer, a promise that impresses U.S. officials more than their West European counterparts. Yet a few weeks ago, his economic think tank was still saying that its program would not be ready until the middle of the year 2000. His track record as Prime Minister suggests a cynical pragmatist rather than...
...potential leaders of the free world include an apologist for Adolf Hitler; a professional wrestler who changed his name from the Body to the Mind; and a real estate magnate at once so ridiculous and self-confident that he is oddly mesmerizing. Indeed, watching the entire crop of Reform Party candidates vie for position is like watching dogs copulate in a public square: it's not pleasant, but you can't take your eyes off them...